Scrambling, between libraries, offices, cities (and states, that sit right across a river from each other) these days, so in lieu of a long...

Much ado about various responsibilities, so no time for intensive blogging, but the ever brilliant Geoffrey J . pointed me toward the follo...

Though the looming disaster of the US Congress' s failure raise the debt-limit ceiling, a procedural vote that has been fairly routin...

From Ian Buruma 's "A Free Spirit," a New York Review of Books review essay on Janny Scott 's A Singular Woman: The Un...